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...November of 1983, the fall of my freshman year, I was one of a few dozen Harvard students who trekked to Washington on a cold, gray autumn weekend to protest U.S. intervention in Central America. There were about 30,000 of us at the demonstration, which to my inexperienced eyes seemed to be an endless crowd. But when we reached the Ellipse, the vast open spaces of the Mall made our numbers seem meager...
...suggested to Mr. Shultz, in fact, an exact deal that would lead to the meeting of Mr. President with our general secretary, in the autumn or at the end of the year," Viktor Karpov, the chief Soviet arms control official, said on ABC-TV's "This Week With David Brinkley...
...with Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, the U.S. and its largest trading partner appear close to a historic juncture in their immense economic relationship (value of 1986 commerce: $129 billion). After a year of negotiation, officials in Washington and Ottawa seem confident they can produce a draft agreement by autumn that will completely eliminate tariff barriers between the two countries over the next decade or so. Reagan also took a modest -- for most Canadians, far too modest -- step toward alleviating another deep Canadian concern. The President said he would "consider" negotiating an accord to control acid-rain pollution from...
During the 1930s the only way to reach Magadan was by ship from Khabarovsk, which created an island psychology and the term Gulag archipelago. The prison ships were crowded hellholes in which thousands died. One survivor's memoir recounts that the prison ship Dzhurma was caught in the autumn ice in 1933 while trying to get to the mouth of the Kolyma River. When it reached port the following spring, it carried only crew and guards. All 12,000 prisoners were missing, left dead...
...plenty also prevails in the bakeries selling moon cakes, a delicacy favored during the autumn harvest-moon festival. Shoppers line up for these heavy round pastries, embossed with good-luck symbols and filled with candied fruits or spiced meats, much like mincemeat...